"We should give them everything"? Now someone needs to ask him about what he's done to help the real heroes get the help with health care they deserve.

Stay on this Greg. Rudy is a complete fraud. At some point the MSM will start asking questions.

Stay on this Greg. Rudy is a complete fraud. At some point the MSM will start asking questions.

No they won't. They have had all manner of opportunity.

It takes people like Greg and others to keep shouting out.

Not to mention Edwards, of course. :-)

Best, Terry

Pound him with all you got (I mean Rudy is supplying awesome material here). It will finally stick at some point. Goodness!!!
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One million page hits against Bush!!!

"We should give them everything," he said. "I mean they are heroes in my estimation. And what I was trying to say was even those that were there less than me and the reality is that we’re all in this together and I’m there with them and I feel that I have the same concerns that they have."

The trouble with this "clarification" is that it indicates a complete lack of understanding of why this is so upsetting to so many people. I hear this and think "Gee, it seems kind of insulting to claim that by standing around on 9/11 and then running the city Giuliani was somehow performing the equivalent job as guys who worked endless shifts digging through asbestos covered rubble to find the human remains of their friends, relatives, and neighbors."

But Giuliani seems to think that the big issue is that he somehow implied that those workers who worked less than he did at Ground Zero are not also Giulianni-esque heroes and that was what was so troublesome to people. Once he clarifies that everyone can be heroic together (even if he's in the upper tier of heroics) this issue should all go away. In fact this just makes it even worse -- the issue is that you were NOT a rescue worker and not performing even remotely the same task as them and to imply otherwise is to exploit and trivialize their sacrifices.

Look, I went to school every morning right by Ground Zero for two years after the attack. A lot of people in the neighborhood who weren't first responders DID get sick (although not on the same scale -- the numbers are beyond awful for people who worked on the pile itself early on). But does that mean I'm somehow "one of" the Ground Zero workers who actually dug us out of this horrifying mess? Or that I can claim that because I was there two years but a FDNY worker was there for the first two weeks I'm somehow in another league? Of course not, you'd think I was insane if I suggested such a thing. But to Giuliani this apparently doesn't even occur to him. Standing around buildings is no different than doing something about it.